Make Your Wedding Inexpensive

Saving money on your wedding cake to help make your wedding inexpensive is something that any bride or groom can easily do, that is if you know how. With the following tips that are very easy to implement you will be well on your way to keeping a lid on your wedding expenses.

You can easily save money on your wedding cake by choosing lower cost ingredients for the cake. For example one way a couple might save on their wedding cake is to choose a cake with butter cream icing rather than fondant icing. The fondant requires a lot more labor and thus is a whole lot more expensive. The butter cream will end up looking just as nice and in my opinion will taste even better. Don’t forget that white or ivory colored frosting is cheaper as it will not have to be tinted by hand which is more labor thus more expensive.

Limiting the number of flavors in your cake will save you money too. Just think about it for a minute. How many flavors do you really need to have and still have your cake taste great? Stick with the simple flavors but don’t forget to make that top tier your favorite flavor so you can enjoy it on your first anniversary next year.

All of those little edible gum paste flowers and other beautiful decorations that are hand made on the cake can really rack up the cost as well. Try using some fresh flowers or even some artificial ones along with colorful personalized ribbon that has the bride and grooms names and wedding date embossed on it to decorate your cake once it’s on site; these can make it look just as beautiful as the more expensive alternative.

You can save money on your wedding cake by using a few tricks in the construction of your cake. My favorite cakes to look at are those beautiful, large, towering wedding cakes. Well if that’s a favorite of yours too then you can have the same look, without the cost by having some of those layers be false layers. The way it works is that you have to make sure you have enough cake for your wedding party, but to build that beautiful tower you will incorporate some layers made from Styrofoam, cut and shaped to look like a layer of cake. The Styrofoam layers are then frosted and decorated like the rest of the cake and presto, you have instant tower! The real beauty of this is that you get to have an elegant wedding cake in your wedding pictures without having to worry about completely ruining your wedding budget.

Another variation of the above idea is to have a smaller cake, done mostly with Styrofoam which will be used in your reception and pictures but when it comes time to serve the cake, a sheet cake in the back room or kitchen is the one that is actually served to the guests. If you should use either of these two methods, just make sure that you know which layer to cut from during your cake-cutting ceremony or you may find yourself a wee bit embarrassed.

You can make your wedding inexpensive and save even more money by having non traditional cakes. Some couples who marry today are doing something very different on their wedding day, like serving beautifully decorated baked cupcakes built up into a tower.  Check out the photo at the top of this post to see a good example. What they do is build the cupcake tower as a wedding cake and then top their cupcake tower with a cake tier for the bride and groom. For cost savings you can order your cupcakes or single layer cakes in a supermarket bakery, or a shopping club like Costco or Sam’s Club where they are very reasonably priced.

As you can see there are a variety of different ways that you can save money on your wedding cake and make your wedding inexpensive.  Even if you are on the strictest of budgets your inexpensive wedding cake should taste just as good as the more expensive ones. It is not the taste of the cake that adds to the expense, it is the size and the elaborate decorations that make them so expensive.

Unless you have a bunch of true cake lovers like me at your wedding, chances are that not many people are going to remember the cake anyhow. Save money on the cake, keep your wedding inexpensive and no one will ever notice the difference.

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